Sunday, May 17, 2015

Mope-Rah at it Again

She is so close to actually breaking through on something. You can see it, but she just can't make the last connection:

There is much praise for good Samaritans.

These strangers often put their own lives at risk trying to save others from peril.

Sometimes, the news media or the police recognize these heroic efforts, but quite often good Samaritans disappear without anyone ever knowing their names.

In 2013, two unidentified good Samaritans foiled a rape attempt near a CTA Orange Line station by coming to the aid of an 18-year-old woman who was thrown to the ground in the attack.

Last week, we saw a very different response to a situation in which it was clear someone was in desperate need of help. A young woman riding a CTA Red Line train alone in the early hours of the morning was trying to fight off a rapist when the train pulled into the North/Clybourn stop, and a man got on.

According to the woman, he attacked her, pulling down her pants and underwear. She was screaming for help when the stranger stumbled onto the scene.

But instead of trying to make the attacker stop, or pushing the emergency call button, or even dialing 911, the man turned around and left the train.

Mope-rah heaps scorn on the witness. Rightfully? Who knows. Most people aren't that good in a one-on-one encounter. We certainly aren't as good as we used to be so many years ago...time robs us of vision, reflexes, recovery time, etc. It happens to all of us. Mope-rah doesn't describe the age or condition of the "failed" hero.

Would we have intervened? Most certainly. But we would have had something that the good Samaritan probably didn't have, something that would equalize the odds, especially if he was frail, untested, hesitant about his odds taking on an assailant in an empty train car with no one else around to help, something that he was banned from carrying on a CTA train. Remember, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away - more so in the Mass Transit Unit.

But Mope-rah doesn't make that leap, probably for the same reason the stranger turned away from a criminal act in his presence. You can almost feel the inner-conservative begging to come out of Mope-rah's shadow. Maybe one day....

Mary Bitchell is a liar & an idiot! Why she has a public voice is beyond me! I don't wish ill on people but since she isn't human I hope she dies a horrible & painful death! With any luck the lies your allowed to publish will punch your ticket to hell!

Mass Transit is a joke of a unit. Total waste of manpower tackling smoking on platforms, graffiti and other nonsense. People get robbed and raped all the time. Patterns on almost all train lines etc. They work cush hours and never address real issues.

Two years ago, I was on my bike when just south of the Harrison Red Line station, I heard screaming. I thought it was the usual after school kid noise prevalent in the vicinity of schools. In reality, two jerks had snatched a woman's cell phone. Maybe it was my old South Side instincts about honor and what my high school priests had drummed into me about always trying to do the right thing or maybe it was simply a reaction to the thugs who seem to infest our streets in greater numbers every year.

Whatever the reason, I cornered one of the thieves and with the help of another man we held onto him until the tac guys showed up. Of course, he had tossed the cellphone as well as his back pack and was screaming that we had assaulted him. When that didn't work, he began yelling to a black woman who looked out her window at the commotion that "he was just trying to feed his family,"

I rode away after the police arrived for the simple reason that I didn't wish to become the new George Zimmerman. I am sure this honor student has been plying his trade since that day and will probably move onto bigger and better endeavors.

I am not a gun owner nor a justice seeker and at the time, I was sixty-six and rode for another twenty miles after the incident.

Despite the cast of self-serving thieves who control our city, we as citizens sometimes need to do the right thing.

Failing to do anything to help a woman being attacked on the "L" is despicable on any level.

We still have a mass transit unit? I work in 001 and mass transit is completely useless. Never available, even during rush hour. Only time you hear them is when the request a car from district to do paper.

Who knows? Who cares? All I know is that if I get on the train or bus, and some shit is going down - I'm leaving.

That asshole could have friends, and I'm not supposed to be armed so fuck it. I'm not getting involved in some nonsense - I've seen too many good guys over the years (even some black belts) try to help, get grabbed from behind by some accomplice and end up a vegetable because of a blood clot to the brain.

The people got what they elected - Politicians who steal the money, restrict gun rights, enable criminals, fire cops, and install do-nothing cameras that often don't work. It's not called Chiraq for nothing.

SCC-Please check out the article by the NRA-ILA regarding "off-limits" areas NOT covered by HR 218/LEOSA. It appears to be an active/retired peace officer''s nightmare and a tort lawyer's dream. After the Baltimore DA's actions-anything could happen.

Mass Transit is a joke of a unit. Total waste of manpower tackling smoking on platforms, graffiti and other nonsense. People get robbed and raped all the time. Patterns on almost all train lines etc. They work cush hours and never address real issues.

5/17/2015 08:36:00 AM

I'm not advocating for mass transit, but you do realize that the reason this guy was caught was because he was observed smoking on a CTA platform, right?

Suntimes should investigate the shootings , victim out late at night , what no job to go to , free welfare from city ,state and federal government . It would be interesting to also study how many offenders are receiving money from the working tax payer . Boston bomber did , bet a lot of chi town gang bangin , drug dealin , shooters are being payed by our government that is generous with the working mans tax dollars .

Anonymous said...It is absolutely criminal that we cannot carry our CCW on the CTA, where it is certainly needed.

Carry anyway. If you are in a situation where your life/safety is threatened, use it and come out alive. Deal with the legal bullshit later. NOBODY has the right to say you can't protect yourself/family when traveling and minding your own business.

Some years ago a, whore took a john into an alley behind my building at 3 am, where the pimp robbed him at knifepoint. John started screaming for help, woke me up. I looked out the window and shouted, "cut his balls off."

If her "community" of African Americans did the right thing my clearance rate would be about 80%.

Her and her "no snitching" nieces and nephrews can suck it.

That's the world they like to live in.

5/17/2015 09:50:00 AM

It's so strange how "no snitching" now is correlated with her "community" of African Americans doing the right thing as if that's the reason Hizzoner was never indicted. I'm sure you are happy to inform your supervisor every time you see someone do something inappropriate or outside of the regulation on a call.

Mass Transit is a joke of a unit. Total waste of manpower tackling smoking on platforms, graffiti and other nonsense. People get robbed and raped all the time. Patterns on almost all train lines etc. They work cush hours and never address real issues.

5/17/2015 08:36:00 AMstop hating, mass transit like the airports and every district is critically low that's your answer! Critical units low, what can you expect? This is what happens when you shuffle money from the people that actually deserve service (taxpayers) to the illegals and link card holders that have no respect for police! Then they deny the billions they have misappropriated, is not available to fund the pension plans for the show us our money ladies and gentlemen show us the 550 million due in December that would be 2015 "Change we can believe in."

Mass Transit is a joke of a unit. Total waste of manpower tackling smoking on platforms, graffiti and other nonsense. People get robbed and raped all the time. Patterns on almost all train lines etc. They work cush hours and never address real issues.

5/17/2015 08:36:00 AM

Wow. They still have Mass Transit Unit? Never seen them respond to any calls on El or busses. Must all be downtown.

The witness turned up at A/N with his lawyer. It turns out he is a concealed carry citizen and was carrying when he boarded that train. Said he made a split second reasoning that he would be charged if he got involved. Didn't want to be a test case or made an example of by rahm. It did bother him that he didn't do anything but self preservation kicked in

We still have a mass transit unit? I work in 001 and mass transit is completely useless. Never available, even during rush hour. Only time you hear them is when the request a car from district to do paper So is the 1st district. Thats why 9 of u guys bailed to mass 3 years ago.But let me inform u since u are a ball of fire in !st dist and didn t have a chance to read directives. Mass transit is a supplemental unit and they don t have to do reports. Because GEORGUS has them on fixed post on the RED south most of the days with his missions most are not available. With manpower shortage ur lucky if u have 4 teams working on a given day, and none have cars.New York has 4000 in their unit, chicago 130..for 3 watches counting TAC and the DOGS.Do the math SUPERCOP.

Anonymous Anonymous said...The witness turned up at A/N with his lawyer. It turns out he is a concealed carry citizen and was carrying when he boarded that train. Said he made a split second reasoning that he would be charged if he got involved. Didn't want to be a test case or made an example of by rahm. It did bother him that he didn't do anything but self preservation kicked in

5/18/2015 06:44:00 AM

Smart man!He did what was right to protect himself from Rahm & McIdiot's wretched "Only Criminals Can Carry Guns Here" ordinances.

Fuck all these fools yelling about "helping that poor woman."

If she were vested in her own safety, she would've likely had a weapon herself.

The police decoys were very easy to see that they were decoys. Post signs advising not to sit in a car alone, sit by the alarm, always be aware of your surroundings, and what ever else a safety expert can advise.